About Anchor's Away!

Anchors Away is a place where educators can add educational games and activies that students with laptops can do when they have finished their regular classroom assignments. Feel free to request membership to the space and add your own resources. Give this page to your students!

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Social Studies/History

• GeoBee Challenge - National Geographic Geography Quiz. They offer a new quiz each day that has 10 questions.
• Interesting Trivia
• Write like an Egyptian
• Explore Ancient Worlds and Civilizations Ancient Web>
• Read about Extraordinary Leaders, Thinkers and Pioneers who have shaped our world. Academy of Achievement>
• Geography Game. Do you know the location of your countries? Geonet>
• Virtual Field Trip of the Titanic
• Virtual Field Trip through the Great Pyramids Nova>
• 3rd World Farmer Simulation Game (Excellent) 3D World Farmer>
• The Cost of Life Game (Microsoft) Can you afford it?
• Viking Quest (BBC History Site) Step back into 793 AD
• Virtual Tour of the Louvre (Famous Museum in France) Another way to visit the Louvre
• Orange Revolution Game (Game about Power and Politics in Ukraine) Taking IT Global
• Flag Game Name the Flags
• World Freedom Atlas Map
• World Hunger Map (Interactive)

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English Language Arts

• Crossword Puzzle with at twist. It has 5 levels and is very challenging at the end. Crossword
• Read a book Online Books>
• Listen to an audio book from public domain collection Audio books>
• More e-books to read e-books
• MadLibs (Interactive Story that you can make online) mad libs
• More MadLibs more mad libs
  
• Online Scrabble that you can play with friends you invite game
• Write a story using Random Story Starter
• Magnetic Poetry
• Vocabulary Game that donates rice to end world hunger for every correct answer Play
• Make or read a digital story Story Map
• More digital stories for your listening pleasure. Digital Stories
• Word Connect (A combination of Tetras and Scrabble....a game) Play
• Grammar Ninja
• Storybird Great site to write a story with a friend. Illustrations provided.
• Times Spelling Bee Great spelling games!
• Advertizing game. Can you find all the ads? Admongo.gov
• Definition Word Game http://www.knoword.org/ Fun!
• Word Cloud generator Wordle

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Science

• Disaster Simulation Game- Very Fun!! Play
• Interactive Sound Lab (Currently off-line for maintenance)
• Interactive Electric Circuits
• Various Science Games
• Virtual Dissections (Not for those with a weak stomache)
• Encyclopedia of Life (I love this site)
• Game sponsored by Chevron Lets you choose your city's energy sources
• Albert Einstein quotes

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Mathematics

• What's Special About this Number?
• Sudoku Puzzles online
• More Sudoku Online >
• Chess
• Math Games and Puzzles
• Math Games Math Playground
• Another great chess game...you can play the computer, play a friend or play against another person

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Visual Arts

• Ultimate Flash Face - Allows you to create different faces from pre-made facial features.
• Guess the Google - This game shows pics from Google Images and you have to guess what the pics have in common.
• String Spin
• Virtual Lite Brite
• Kaleideoscope
• Unique drawing page
• Bomomo

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Music

• Make your own sheet music

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Health

• Game outlining the benefits of drinking milk. Very fun!
• Tobacco Use Matching Game (Includes trivia)

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Any Subject

• Battleship Online
• Rubiks Cube Solution from 1986 (Good Luck)
• Maze Frenzy Flash Game>
• Bio Motion Lab - Cool visualizations
• Too Young to Drive? No worries. Try out this driving simulation game using Google Maps
• Archive of Jeopardy questions from previous shows.
• Make or view historical timelines
• Logic game. Try to spread the virus. http://rfshq.com/forum/games/virus2.swf>
• Typing game. Race against opponents
• Make a podcast with Audacity and add sound effects from Soundsnap
• Samorost Flash Game http://analogik.org/samorost/samorost.html Can you solve the puzzles? Beware, there are no instructions!
• Kerpoof - all about "having fun, discovering things, and being creative". That is what this site is all about.
• FunBrain

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